Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Meerut: Observing that the state government has failed to provide potable water to villages in six Uttar Pradesh districts where groundwater is contaminated with toxic elements -- Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Meerut, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur -- the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed the chief secretary to ensure supply of drinking …
RAIPUR: In a significant move, Chhattisgarh environment board has made it mandatory to use idols made of natural soil and paints during immersions in festivals of Navaratri and Ganesh Utsav. The move comes in wake of consistent increase in pollution of water bodies due to religious practices and immersion of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Budget Utilisation for Clean Ganga Mission, 21/07/2016. As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under NGRBA programme) in 53 towns at an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Nimami Ganga Yojana, 21/07/2016. As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under NGRBA programme) in 53 towns at an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these 12 projects are …
Kanpur: A team of UP Pollution Control Board officials from Lucknow arrived at Kanpur zoo on Sunday and collected water samples from the zoo lake to study them in the lab. A total of four samples were collected from different locations. On Saturday, thouands of fish had died in the …
A report by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) submitted to National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the city's sewage treatment shows why it is highly unrealistic to expect a clean Yamuna anytime soon. The report states that against a generation of 4,200 million litres a day (MLD) of waste water, about …
The government will soon bring forth a legislation to punish those who pollute the Ganga river, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister Uma Bharti said on Monday. In response to a question on whether the industries polluting Ganga have been punished, the minister informed the Rajya Sabha that: …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Saturday slapped closure notice on nine hotels here for failing to deposit the penalty amount it had imposed on it in May for violating pollution control norms. The OSPCB, acting on the direction of National Green Tribunal, had given four weeks …
Nashik: The Kumbh Mela finally comes to an end on August 11; and while the river has swelled to capacity with the onset of monsoon, the Godavari is once again filled with drainage, sewage and other waste, bringing the focus once again to the cleanliness issues marring the holy waters. …
KANPUR: Thousands of fishes of different species including 'Chilwa' and cat fish died in the lake of Kanpur zoo following dip in the level of dissolved oxygen in the lake water. The dead fishes were found floating on the water surface in the lake spread in an area of 10 …
Nagpur: Amid much controversy on the city's Environment Status Report (ESR) 2014-15, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has finally spoken out on the report's contents. Denying allegations that Nag River's water quality was good enough for bathing, the civic body clarified that the river comes under category of public sewer and …
Agra: The municipal corporation on Tuesday assured the National Green Tribunal (NBT) that it, along with other agencies, is taking steps to clean the stretch of the Yamuna river flowing behind the Taj Mahal. According to information, the civic body also presented some photographers to support its claim that it …
Surat: Release of untreated water and waste into Tapi by over 150 industrial units located in the jurisdiction of Surat Urban Development Authority (SUDA) is a major source of pollution of river water. Around 87 villages in SUDA limits located in the upstream and downstream of the river also release …
About 12,000 tonnes of rubbish dumped on the edge of Lake Tai continues to pose a contamination risk to drinking water in Suzhou, but local authorities and residents still can’t agree on exactly what the garbage contains, mainland media report. In one instance, Suzhou police discovered on July 1 that …
SONBHADRA: At the Rohiniya Damar village in Uttar Pradesh, 100 kilometres from Sonbhadra district's main Robertsganj town, excessive flouride in the ground water has spared no one. It hasn't spared the old, most of whom walk totally bent, slowly with the help of sticks. While others like 65-year-old Shakuntala Devi …
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, in which nearly three million barrels of crude oil got released in 2010 into the northern Gulf of Mexico, is the worst oil disaster in US history, contaminating the spawning habitats for many fishes. A research team led by an environmental …
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday asked the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samiti and the state government to take steps to ensure that only upto 15-foot-tall Ganesh Idols are installed at pandals this year. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice P. Naveen Rao, while …
Corporations and other multinational institutions are increasingly looking to evaluate their innovation and procurement decisions over a range of environmental criteria, including impacts on ecosystem services according to the spatial configuration of activities on the landscape. We have developed a spatially explicit approach and modeled a hypothetical corporate supply chain …
Nagpur: The state government owned all new buildings will come up on green building concept from now onwards. Also, the renovation of existing buildings will have to be done on the same concept. The move is to conserve environment and reduce cost of construction and utilization. The state's public works …
About a hundred miles north of Miami on the Atlantic Coast, the town of Stuart is a picturesque waterfront community — with homes, restaurants and parks overlooking the St. Lucie Estuary. But in many areas now, when you approach the water, the first thing you notice is the smell. "There's …
